Female-sleuth Quote by Adrianne Lee

“As far as I'm concerned, you can't beat a good whodunnit: the twists and turns, the clues and the red herrings and then, finally,…

— Anthony Horowitz

“Death is only the end if you assume the story is about you.”

— Jeffrey Cranor

“Murder was so trivial in the stories Harold loved. Dead bodies were plot points, puzzles to be reasoned out. They weren't brothers. Plot points…

— Graham Moore

“The plot, then, is the first principle, and, as it were, the soul of a tragedy; Character holds the second place.”

— Aristotle

“Plots are for dead people.”

— Anonymous

“You know your characters are truly alive, when they start to write their own story and take you to places you didn't expect.”

— Joanne McDonnell

“Imagine a place where the dead rest on shelves like books. Each body has a story to tell...”

— Victoria Schwab

“Plot grows out of character. If you focus on who the people in your story are, if you sit and write about two people…

— Anne Lamott

“If you spend enough time with your characters, plot simply happens.”

— Chris Baty

“Main characters never die in books. If they did, the story would be ruined, or over.” “Everybody is a main character to someone. There…

— Amy Harmon

“I guess that seems like an absurd premise until we consider the possibility that the dead are always with us, beckoning from the shade,…

— James Lee Burke

“Death is the simplest act shrouded by the greatest mystery.”

— Jen Nadol